Haycock Secretary Resigns

Will Retain East Rockhill Post

Kathleen M. Babb resigned as secretary-treasurer of Haycock Township last night - effective as soon as a replacement can be trained.

Babb, who held the post for nine years, is now running for township supervisor and feels her resignation "is in the best interest of the township."

She will keep her position as secretary to the Haycock Township Planning Commission.

Babb worked several days a week in the Haycock Township office in her duties as secretary-treasurer.

She also serves as secretary-treasurer and office manager for East Rockhill Township - which she indicates is a growing position in a growing township.

Babb said yesterday she feels she can be a better asset to both townships by being a supervisor in Haycock Township and an office manager in East Rockhill Township.

Whether she wins or loses the supervisor's post in the general election, she said last night her resignation as Haycock's secretary-treasurer will stand.

She also expressed a willingness to train her replacement - an offer the supervisors readily agreed to when they accepted her resignation.

In other business, the board agreed to allow the Village Fellowship, a township-based religious group, to use the township community center from 9 a.m. until noon each Sunday as a place of worship.

The pastor or group leader, John H. Kulp, who attended the meeting, was welcomed by the board and told guidelines will be drawn by township officials for use of the building.

Because the Village Fellowship is a township-based group, the supervisors decided no rent will be charged by the township.

The group has agreed to help furnish the building and do some maintenance chores.

The board decided it favors the Quakertown Area Planning Committee's proposal to do a traffic-impact study of the area that would be used as a tool in mapping a Route 313 bypass of Quakertown either to the north or to the south.

The total cost is estimated at $15,000. Haycock's share of that cost would be $1,800.

However, the board noted it has received information that in 1986 the state Department of Community Affairs would have money available to fund this study.

In light of that knowledge, the supervisors suggested the Quakertown Area Planning Committee might want to wait six months to get the project moving so that it could get state funding.